How one
couple ended in the Sandhills
their search for a retirement
home is related on page 7.
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Hot nights
bring memories to some old-
timers. For a delightful journey
into the past, see page 1
VOL. 43—No. 33
MAY BE LOST
Blood Program
Threatened By
Lag In Giving
Despite many devoted volun
teer workers in all seven Moore
County communities visited by
bloodmobiles from the American
Ked Cross blood center at Char
lotte, Moore County’s collection
program is failing.
Over the past year, Moore
County donors gave 1,051 pints.
That sounds good—but it wasn’t
nearly enough, says John R. Hau
ser of Southern Pines, blood pro
gram chairman for the Moore
County Red Cross Chapter.
The county’s quota—based ex-
COLLECTIONS SET
MONDAY, TUESDAY
The bloodmobile from the
Red Cross center at Charlotte
will make two visits in Moore
County next week.
On Monday, July 8, it will
be at the high school cafeter
ia in Carthage from noon to
6 p.m.
On Tuesday. July 9. it will
be at St. Anthony's Parochial
School here from 11 a.m. to
5 pm.'
Persons from any part of
the county can give blood at
either of the visits.
The Jaycees are sponsoring
the collection in each of the
towns.
actly on the number of pints ac
tually used by the county’s two
hospitals in the preceding year—
is 1,447 pints. ITrat means that
the difference—289 pints—^liad to
be sent into Moore, via the blood
center, from other counties.
“The Charlotte center can’t
permit this situation to continue
indefinitely,” Mr. Hauser said
this week in announcing visits of
the bloodmobile to Carthage on
Monday, July 8, and to Southern
Pines on Tuesday, July 9. “I don’t
see how the people of Moore
County can let this program die.
Maybe they don’t know or don’t
remember what a struggle it was
to get blood donors before the
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EIGHTEEN PAGES
SOUTHERN PINES, N. C., THURSDAY, JULY 4, 1963
EIGHTEEN PAGES
PRICE: 10 CENTS
TO ELKS CAMP— This was the scene Sun
day morning as 22 boys from Moore, Hoke and
Richmond Counties gathered at the Southern
Pines Country Club for breakfast at 6 a.m. and
departure at 7 for the Elks Camp near Hender
sonville where they are spending two weeks
sponsored by the local Elks lodge. Standing
at back of photo are Elks committeemen and
officials and others who helped drive the boys
to camp. Left to right, they are: Joe Kimball,
Walter Harper, Don Thompson, B. C. Ochs,
Larry Ryder, Morris Arnold, Jimmy Irvin, Gene
Blackwelder, Archie Barnes, Jr., Jim Irvin,
Archie Barnes, J. Elsie Webb of Richmond
County, Morris Johnson, George Thompson who
is chairman of the local camp committee, and
Cecil Hutchinson. The boys, listed alphabetical
ly, are: James Arnold, Joseph Albanese, Ralph
Bauguess, D. B. Boyd, Boris de Nissoff, Kenneth
Frederick, Carl Hash, Ray Hill, Jerry Kirk,
David Lucas, John Lentz, Ronnie Monroe, Joll
Perry, Victor Ritter, Michael Rainwater
Danny Stutts, Thomas Swoope, Clarence Shef
field, Sam Short, Ronnie Taylor, Johnnie Wil
liams and Donald Yow.
(Humphrey photo)
LONG SERVICE PRAISED
Parties, Gifts Honor Miss McDonald
On Retirement From County Post
Two events, one a surprise
party for “Miss Flora,” marked
“Flora McDonald Day” in Moore
County, last Friday.
Miss McDonald, Moore County
hom.e economics agent for the
past 30 years, was accorded ver-
Poe Replaces Clark As
license Examiner Here
Will Poe has replaced D. A.
Clark as driver’s license examin
er for lower Moore County, with
regular visits scheduled to Aber
deen, Southern Pines and Pine-
hurst.
Mr. Clark has been assigned to
Fayetteville. Mr. Poe, well known
in Southern Pines and with sev
eral relatives here, has been em
ployed at the State licensing of
fice in Raleigh for 17 years.
The Fourth Of July
An Editorial
JEFFERSON TO LAFAYETTE (1820):
"The light which has been shed on the mind of man
throughout the civilised world has given it a new direc
tion from which no human power can divert it."
"The flames kindled on the Fourth of July, 1776. have
spread over too much of the globe to be extinguished by
the feeble engines of despotism."
ON NATIONALISM (1775);
"Our attachment to no nation on earth should supplant
our attachment to Liberty."
The words of Thomas Jefferson speak keenly to the
people of today.
They speak from a profound belief in the principles he
was enunciating, but also, and most reassuringly, they
speak from as strong a belief in the people to whom they
were addressed.
Jefferson had faith in the American people. He had
seen them grow in only a few years from disorganized,
separate colonists into The People of These United States.
He wrote triumphantly that “modern times have dis
covered the only device by which such rights (as express
ed in the Bill of Rights) could be secured, to wit govern
ment by the people” acting through their chosen repre
sentatives. His words ring with complete trust in the
people, with belief in their intelligence and their courage.
We need that testimony from Jefferson today, for the
nation is troubled, uneasy, uncertain of itself. The fami
liar symptoms are visible in the rise of odd societies gar
nished with fiery slogans, in the dire warnings of the
pseudo-patriots. The emphasis on outward displays of
patriotics, oaths of allegiance, passage of the “anti-
Communist speaker bill,” bespeak lack of confidence
in the people. Even the ads emphasize it: Americans have
held, with the Signers, that the great Truths upon which
the nation was founded are self-evident, and patriotism
is something inherent, but now, as has happened in
previous troubled times, we are constantly called on to
show that we are patriotic. We are told we must cringe
from contact with foreign doctrines, with anything that
is not “American;” we insult our youth by the suggestion
that their patriotism, not to mention their intelligence,
is so weak they would be undermined by the slightest
exposure to communist or any other subversive influence.
So the words of Jefferson are good words to think about
today; those words of faith in the people of this nation
and in the enduring vitality of the principles upon which
it is founded. To paraphrase Scripture, if Jefferson be
lieved in us, we may, with dignity and courage, believe
in ourselves. May we, then, take heart and face forward
with renewed hope on that pursuit of liberty, justice,
and happiness for all, in which Jefferson pointed the way.
bal tributes and presented gifts
of silver, honoring her on the oc
casion of her retirement at the
end of June.
At 4 p. m., all doors of the
courthouse but one were locked
so a party could be held in the
main hall. Miss Flora, leaving her
third-floor office for the last time,
came downstairs to find a linen-
covered, flower-decorated, can
dlelit table and friends of all. the
courthouse department staffs
waiting to greet her.
Punch and fancy sandwiches
and cakes were served during the
ensuing hour, as the courthouse
workers gathered as their work
permitted them to congratulate
and compliment “Miss Flora.”
Her surprise was complete
when Mrs. Estelle Wicker, coun
ty accountant, reciting a friend
ship poem, presented to her a
handsome silver tray, the gift of
the “courthouse girls.”
Night Reception
More formal, and attended by
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FOR FLORIST SHOP
New York Avenue
House Purchased
Sale of the former Grosvenor
house on W. New York Ave. by
Emmanuel Episcopal Chvurch to
Southern Pines Florists, Inc., was
announced this week by Pines
Realty and Insurance Co., agent
for the transaction.
Mrs. George A. McCormac,
owner and operator of Southern
Pines Florists, said that altera
tion work has begim on the house
preparatory to moving the busi
ness there from its present loca
tion at 570 S. W. Broad St., with
in tnree or four weeks. The house
is in the 100 block of W. New
York Ave., opposite the post of-
fic.3 and Carter’s Laundry.
'The present site of the florist
business, owned by Mrs. Bessie
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ARC Collectiug
Books For Troops
The Moore County Chapter of
the American Bed Cross is col
lecting “paper-back” books for
distribution to soldiers at Fort
Bragg. Thousands of Reserve
and National Guard troops are in
training there during the sum
mer, and the books will be dis
tributed to the troops in the field.
Mrs. I. T. Wyche of Pinehurst,
Moore County chairman of volun
teers for aid to military person
nel and hospitalized veterans, is
in charge of the collection of the
books. Those in this area who
have books to donate may leave
them at the S. W. Broad St. office
of the Moore County Red Cross
Chapter. Volunteers will coUect
books from donors who are un
able to deliver their contributions
to the office.
JACK SANDLIN, recently
employed as a patrolman, is
the newest member of the
Southern Pines police depart
ment, filling a vacancy caus
ed by the resignation of Pa
trolman Allan Benner to be
come chief of police at Car
thage. A native of Kentucky
and a former member of the
Laurinburg police depart
ment, Sandlin is living here
in a trailer home. He is mar
ried and the father of two
young children.
elected TO POST
Mrs. Audrey McCaskill, Moore
County register of deeds, was
elected treasurer of the North
Carolina Register of Deeds Asso
ciation at the group’s recent con
vention in Morehead City.
County Budget
Tops Last Year
By $50,000 Rise
The county commissioners on
Monday approved a budget esti
mate for the 1963-64 fiscal year,
starting July 1, and ordered that
it he placed on file for public
Inspection during the next 20
days in the office of the register
of deeds at the courthouse in
Carthage.
Total budget requirements are
listed at a record-breaking $1,-
471,240 nearly $50,000 higher than
the previous year’s $1,420,043.
In another action, the commis
sioners authorized paying of cur
rent bills under the new budget,
until the budget estimate is for
mally adopted after the 20-day
inspection period.
'The new budget is based on a
tax rate of $1.05 per $100 of real
and personal property valuation,
down from $1.70 of the previous
year. The new budget lists an es
timated property valuation of $85
million, as compared to $52^
million for the previous year.
As usual, appropriations for
schools are the biggest single
item: $842,105 in the new budget
as compared to $829,032 for the
previous year.
Largest item within the school
fund is that for capital outlay
(construction and major altera
tions)—$460,115, as compared to
$452,131 in the previous budget.
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Rates Set For
Special Taxes
In 4 Districts
Rates for supplementary school
taxes in the four Mobrei County
school districts having such taxes
have been set by the Moore
County commissioners.
Mrs. Estelle Wicker, county ac
countant, this week listed the
rates (per $100 of property valua
tion) as:
Southern Pines, 35 cents, for
merly 50 cents.
Pinehurst, 25 cents, formerly 30
cents.
Aberdeen, 22 cents, formerly
30 cents.
West End, 22 cents, to be as
sessed for the first time in the
West End district, as voted by the
residents of the district earlier
this year.
Former rates were lowered be
cause of an increase in property
valuation, following a profession
al appraisal throughout the coun
ty. The new rates, recommended
by the boeirds of education in
each district, have been set, how
ever, to increase the amount
brought in by the tax.
Supplementary school taxes are
billed along with county proper
ty taxes and the amounts return
ed to the school districts.
College Presentation
To Be Made July 11
Presentation of Moore County’s
request for a community college
will be made before the State
Board of Education next Thurs
day, July 11, at 10 a.m. in the
Library of the Education Build
ing at Raleigh.
Heading the presentation will
be Supt. Robert E. Lee of Moore
County schools, on request of
Powers Appointed
Assistant Head
Of County Schools
C. Edison Powers, guidance
director for schools in the Moore
County system during the past
four years, this week became the
schools’ first assistant superinten
dent, by appointment of the
county board of education. 'The
county system includes all
schools in Moore County except
those in the separate Southern
Pines and Pinehurst administra
tive districts.
He assumed his new duties
Monday, with office on the third
floor of the courthouse, in the
space formerly occupied by the
county farm office.
The new post fills a long-felt
need, according to Supt. Robert
E. Lee, who said that an assis
tant superintendent was includ
ed in the schools’ budget request
a year ago, but was taken out
under stress of budget cuts.
Now, with an increased state
budget, the State Board of Educa
tion is providing assistant super
intendents for systems having
5,500 to 11,999 pupils. At 12,000
and hi^er, two or more are
provided. There are about 7,000
students in the Moore County
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the State Board. Also attending
the meeting will be members of
the county commission and coun
ty board of education. State Sen
ator W. P. Saunders, Rep. H. Clif
ton Blue and a number of other
citizens supporting the effort to
locate in this county one of the
two-year “comprehensive com
munity colleges” authorized by
the General Assembly. The col
leges would provide academic
technical, trade and other courses.
Any interested person is invi
ted to attend, said Supt. Lee, ad
ding, "We are not interested in
getting up a large delegation, as
that is not the reason for the
meeting, but any one sincerely
interested in this project will cer
tainly be welcome.”
Discussion is expected to be
based on material in a brochure
recently published and sent to
the State Board by the Moore
County board of education, con
taining a wealth of data on Moore
and its potential as a site for one
of the state-operated junior col
leges.
The survey and presentation
are two in a series of steps out
lined by the State Board leading
toward possible allocation of a
college. This would, in effect, be
done through authorization of a
bond issue vote, in which the
people themselves would decide
whether or not Moore would have
a college. The bond issue would
be necessary to carry out the
principal part of the county’s
commitment — the actual con
struction of th.0 college plant.
Action toward securing the col
lege was undertaken by the
Moore County board of education
on request of the State Board,
and by unanimous motion of a
public meeting held at Carthage
March 28.
Traffic Danger Of Long Weekend Cited;
All Six Of County’s Troopers On Duty
North Carolina’s state troopers
will get no vacation over the
long July 4 weekend which for
traffic safety purposes runs from
Wednesday at 6 p.m. to midnight
Sxmday.
Highway Patrol Sgt. J. S.
Jones of Siler City, who heads
Patrol operations in the district
that includes Moore County, said
Tuesday that all six troopers
stationed in Moore would be on
duty throughout the long period
of extra traffic danger.
They’ll be patrolling the high
ways, using electronic equipment
in spot speed checks and other
wise doing all they can to prevent
accidents.
Twenty deaths on North Car
olina highways in the checking
period are predicted by the N. C.
State Motor Club of Charlotte.
The traffic toll on tha highways
in a 30-hour period of the July
4 holiday in 1962 was seven
deaths in six accidents and 169
persons injured in 266 accidents.
Sergeant Jones said that six
persons have been killed in five
fatal accidents in Moore County
so far this year.
Heaviest traffic, he said, is ex
pected Wednesday night and
again, as vacationers drive home
ward, on Saturday and Sunday.
He urged all Moore County
drivers to exercise extra caution
at those times throughout the
long, dangerous weekend.
Work Begins On
Hospital Project
C. P. street Construction Co.
of Charlotte, prime contractor for
Moore Memorial Hospital’s new
wing and alterations, began work
this week on the big project.
The medical records room at
the west end of the building is
being torn out at this point where
the new wing will join the pres
ent hospital. Employee and staff
parking areas are being removed
from the space to be occupied by
the new wing. New parking areas
are being prepared at the east
end of the hospital.
The construction company has
moved its office and equipment
trailers to the site.
MISS WILLIAMS
MISS COLLINS
MISS DOTSON
3 From Moore In ‘Miss N. CJ Event
Three young women from Moore
County will compete in the Mias
North Carolina Pageant at War
Memorial Auditorium, Greens
boro, July 9-13.
One of the many contestants
from all sections of the state will
be chosen as Miss North Carolina
and will represent the state in
the Miss America Pageant in At
lantic City, N. J., later this sum
mer.
Judging will be on appear
ances in evening gown and bath
ing suit, on a talent presenta
tion and on personality and in
telligence.
Each of the Moore County en
tries has won a local contest to
represent a community in this
area, sponsored by the Jaycees
in each town. Jaycees of the
state sponsor the Greensboro pag
eant.
The, Moore entries are:
Miss Emma Holliday Collins of
Southern Pines, winner of the
“Miss Sanford” contest, who will
represent that community in
neighboring Lee County.
Miss Molly Dotson of Carthage
who was chosen “Miss Carthage”
and will go to Greensboro with
that title.
Miss Carolyn Joyce Williams of
West End, who enters the state
pageant as “Miss Robbins,” repre
senting the upper Moore County
town.
Miss Collins
Miss Collins is the daughter of
Harold A. Collins and the late
Mrs. Collins, of Southern Pines.
Mrs. Ken Eason of Sanford is
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UNION HOMECOMING
Members, former members and
friends of Union Presbyterian
Church, between Vass and Carth
age, were reminded this week that
the annual homecoming will be
held at the church Sunday, July
7. The service, starting at 11:15
a. m., will be followed by a pic
nic lunch and fellowship period.
Visitors will bring lunches.
THE WEATHER
Maximum and minimum tem
peratures for each day of tbe past
week were recorded as follows at
the U. S. Weather Bureau obser
vation station at the W E E B
studios on Midland Road.
Max.
June 27
June 28
June 29
June 30
July 1 ...
July 2 ...
Max.
.. 87
.. 89
.. 90
. 90
.. 91
.. 93
Min.
Min.
56
67
69
70
71
70